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Wireless is working well again - we think we have a hold on the rebooting AP's. We are curious if the ninja badges are interfering with wifi (or is our wifi interferring with the badges? The badges have the ninjas; does that make DefCon's wifi the pirates?! FIGHT!)

Our ISP (Sparkplug) called us last night -- "Oh hey, we went ahead & opened your line up to 100Mb - use it!" - so please, for the sake of the children, use the net! :) (kick-ass of them to do that, btw!!)

Somehow some of us got some sleep last night - not sure how we did that, but there it is.

We've seen that, roughly, 50% of the wifi users are on secure wifi. We'd be curious for any feedback on how things are going out there - email us (noc at defconnetworking dot org, or @TheLockheed on Twitter).

The irony is that in the DefCon NOC - we have low wifi coverage.

Enjoy your Saturday! Get out, see the talks, make some friends, talk to people. DefCon is an amazing experience, get the most out of it that you can!! Here's a quote from a DefCon Virgin this year, "This really is the best experience I've had in my life. And I'm being very literal. Thank you for your help and support."

1) https://wifireg.defcon.org - Sorry, we forgot to ask DT to put this in his public DNS servers (fail!) - so that's happening now. It works from the internal network ok. Or from the external network you can use https://208.95.78.182 until DNS propogates.

2) We've noticed some mobile devices (mostly ipads) are having issues renewing their IP after coming out of sleep. We're checking it out and seeing if we can adjust some things on the network side that may help. We think it has to do with having so many AP's that clients are talking longer than expected to settle on which AP to associate with.

Otherwise, if you have any issues with the network, email us, or let dispatch know so we can check into things!

The first day of setup ended about midnight last night. The Inter-webs came up quickly after we had breakfast. The NOC is live & fully functional. The Queen Victoria Pub doth rocketh. Our WiFiz got delayed, but since it's the same (physical) setup as last year we just need to unpack & go. App servers are up & functional. All & all, things are coming along nicely. We have to be completely done by EOD Wednesday (which is anytime before 8a Thursday). The contest area is still going to be hard spot to network up, but the hotel guys are doing their best to make it easy(er) on us.

Data for all speakers, con-events, and DJ's are loaded into the World Domination Database (thanks to Neil & Nikita for providing the data) - the back-end for the DefCon18 Mobile Edition agenda. Still have to load contests once I get some more infoz. t3ase continues his work on CSS-ifying DC-ME (no pressure!).

We got tweeted! Well, it's not as being slashdotted (don't get any ideas!) - but thanks for DT or Neil for giving us the shout-out!

20 days until DC18 starts!

It's definitely going to be an interesting year with floorplan changes, wifi changes, focus on DCTV & a/v streaming (shouts to DJ Great Scott for being so easy to work with, btw!). And the DefCon Confessional is BACK!

We're even jumping in and providing a "Mobile Edition" agenda webapp that will be available locally. We're testing against iPhone, Android, and Blackberries. Look in the program for details! (you can login and have some FourSquare-like functionality if you want to keep up with your friends and who's seeing what talks, going to what bar).